"If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up."

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Source : Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

Adrienne Rich

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“There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like using science fiction to talk about subjects through the veneer of science fiction.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 4, 2010.
“In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.”

Source : Brennan Manning (2014). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.101, Tyndale House
“I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.”
“At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on paper, and trying to work really fast, is to see if I can expand the area of not being driven by taste. Not saying, "This looks good, I'll stop."”
“Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.â€ â€œYes it was.â€ Idris doesnâ€™t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.”
“Allyson Smith reminds me of a younger, prettier, funnier me. Now if you'll excuse me, the ladies from my bridge club have arrived.”
“I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”

Source : Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”
“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”

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